Update Horizon template (KYSelectProperties.com) to new Pro Site for Remax-Mammoth.com

[Battler45]

Vihang,

For our next Pro Site, we will be converting an existing design (http://www.kyselectproperties.com) to a new Pro Site for http://www.remax-mammoth.com.

I've set up a new website here:

• http://remax-mammoth.sierrainteractivedev.com/index.html
• http://remax-mammoth.sierrainteractivedev.com/inside.html

Which is accessible via FTP at:

67.199.110.220 remax-mammoth_dev

using the normal password. Once you FTP into the site, you'll see that I have already copied over the site files from the KYSelectProperties.com version of the site. If you go to the default page for this site:

• http://remax-mammoth.sierrainteractivedev.com

You'll see that there are still some formatting issues in the HTML / CSS of this and the other site pages. Arthur (new programmer) has FTP access to this site and is curently working on fixing those (should be done by tomorrow or Friday).

In the meantime, can you get started updating the constants_client.asp and constants_client_specific.asp files for this site, and then also create the default pages (Home, Contact, About RE/MAX of Mammoth, Meet Our Team, About Mammoth, Careers, Privacy Policy) and a blog with default blog post?

We don't need a "Community Info" page for this site.

For the neighborhood / community pages, the site will have the following sections:

• Mammoth Lakes Subdivisions (/mammoth-homes/)
• Mammoth Lakes Condos (/mammoth-condos/)
• Mammoth Lakes Project Areas (/mammoth-lakes-real-estate/)
• Mono County Communities (/)
• Inyo County Communities (/)

Then, for the Condos and Subdivisions sections, the client has prepared a content template for each type (attached). In this document, there are two templates -- one for the Subdivisions pages, and one for the Condos pages. Upon reviewing this document, I believe you'll be able to make sense of what the client is looking for, and it requires a bit more flexibility than our current tools allow for. Do you think there would be a way to automate this type of content creation? If so, it would be good to somehow build that added flexibility into our system for future use in situations such as this.

In creating the condos and subdivisions pages, please use the attached spreadsheet (also prepared by client) as a point of reference. The subdivisions will be those listed in the "Mammoth Lakes Subdivisions" column, and the condos will be those listed in the "Mammoth Condo Complexes" column. I believe the Saved Searches for all of these should already be created. Any Saved Searches which are not already created can be dis-regarded for the time being, because I don't believe there are active MLS listings for those areas at the moment.

Last, one issue for this site is that this site is an upgrade for an existing customer who is currently using IDX Search Tools only. The URL of their search tools is: http://mammothmls.sierrainteractivemls.com/

One problem we may encounter in developing this site is that the Site Domain for the existing site is different from what it will be for the new site. I'm not sure what the best way would be to get around this, other than to hard code a temporary change into the /res/includes/session_mgr.asp file that would recognize the remax-mammoth.sierrainteractivedev.com domain and automatically change it to mammothmls.sierrainteractivemls.com before passing it into the Session functions. (Basically, a hack to get it to work until the site goes live.)

Please let me know if you have any questions.

Thanks.

Posted by Peskoe Ben(unfuddle username: bpeskoe)

[Battler45]

Ben,

RE #38 point-2:

I could have done the same for the Mammoth Luxury Homes and Mammoth Crashpads saved-searches. However, client wants to include all condos priced above $650,000 and homes priced above $795,000 for the Mammoth Luxury Homes. Similarly for the Mammoth Crashpads, he wants to include all condos priced below $200,000 and homes priced below $375,000. So I have created individual saved-searches. Please let me know if it would be fine to set same price for condos and homes for both the luxury homes and crashpads saved-searches.

Thanks Posted by Shah Vihang(unfuddle username: vihang)

[Battler45]

Ben,

I have combined the saved-searches and community pages for the above mentioned CondoProjects and Subdivisions.

Thanks Posted by Shah Vihang(unfuddle username: vihang)

[Battler45]

Vihang,

Ah, I see, thanks for clarifying. Please do combine both residential and condos into one search on all of those pages, and use the lower of the price ranges specified.

Thanks. Posted by Peskoe Ben(unfuddle username: bpeskoe)

[Battler45]

Ben,

I have updated the Site Map page to display pages in the Mammoth Sales Data section.

Regarding Featured Searches:

We don't have separate sections for various Featured Searches like Mammoth Lakes Featured Searches, Crowley Lake Featured Searches etc. All these pages are assigned to Communities section and we have not included this section on the Site Map page. Also, please note that there would be two or more pages with same PageTitle (but different FileName) for these Featured Searches, e.g. a Mammoth Lakes Foreclosures and Crowley Lake Foreclosures page would have same PageTitle "Foreclosures" so, on the site-map page we wold have two "Foreclosures" page links. I am not sure what would be the best way to display Featured Searches dynamically. A possible alternative would be to display the Featured Searches by content labels as we are doing on the communities page. Please let me know your thoughts on this.

On the XML Sitemap page all these pages links are displayed.

Thanks

Posted by Shah Vihang(unfuddle username: vihang)

[Battler45]

Ben,

I have added community pages for each sections and created main community page per your suggestions. Please note that I have added Mammoth Lakes, Crowley Lake, June Lake, North Mono and South Mono featured searches in the Communities section.

Please check these pages and let me know your feedback.

Thanks Posted by Shah Vihang(unfuddle username: vihang)

[Battler45]

Vihang,

I agree that displaying the links by content label on the main site map page does appear to be the best option -- please update the page for this when you have time.

Thanks. Posted by Peskoe Ben(unfuddle username: bpeskoe)

[Battler45]

Vihang,

Good question -- in the Excel workbook, there are several additional sheets, each is labeled with the name of a project area, and contains the condo developments and subdivisions which are to be included in that project area (also applies to Ski In / Ski Out and Golf Course).

Thanks. Posted by Peskoe Ben(unfuddle username: bpeskoe)

[Battler45]

Vihang,

The remax-mammoth.com site is now live and the client is pleased with it. In testing the site, I did notice that there seems to be a problem with the quick search on both the home page and the interior pages.

On the home page, for example, if you select Property Type "Condos" as the first criteria, the display changes to "No Matching Listings." What's strange is that, if you then choose "Mammoth Lakes" from the "Search In" box, it changes back to 203 matching listings. For some reason, when Property Type is selected without an Area being selected, it always returns no results.

Can you look into this and see if you can figure it out?

Thanks. Posted by Peskoe Ben(unfuddle username: bpeskoe)